Defending Hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History /

Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in the history of their discipline. Yet in the Renaissance the history of mathematics flourished. This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered and reconstructed the origins of mathem...

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Main Author: Goulding, Robert. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 25
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Chapter 1: Lineages of Learning -- Chapter 2: Ramus and the History of Mathematics -- Chapter 3: From Plato to Pythagoras: The Scholae mathematicae -- Chapter 4: To Bring Alexandria to Oxford Henry Savile s1570 Lectures on Ptolemy -- Chapter 5: The Puzzling Lives of Euclid -- Chapter 6: Rending Hypatia: The Body of the Elements -- Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography. 
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